Advantages of Nebulizers
· Large dose of drug can be administered over multiple breaths.
· Can be used at any age group.
· Require no propellants that can damage the atmosphere.
· Ensures more efficient intrabronchial drug deposition.
· In emergency medicine used to treat acute bronchial asthma and acute exacerbations of COPD, frequently in
combination with positive pressure ventilation.
· Delivery of inhaled steroids.
· Easy to administer in a very simple manner.
Nevertheless, these devices possess a number of additional drawbacks that tend to favour the use of alternate
delivery devices. Drawbacks of inhalation therapy with nebulizers are summarized in this section [4, 23, 24]
· Low deposition efficiency of the drug in the target areas.
· Higher cost and size complications.
· Time consuming.
· Noisy.
· High maintenance requirements i.e. the equipment must be cleaned and sterilized on regular basis and the air
filtered.
· Dependent on outside power sources, electricity.